On Jun 29, 2008, at 3:03 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
>>> Understood. The alternative (which I think should be seriously
>>> considered) is to break those pages, and to always use UTF-8 for
>>> encoding.
>> I can only spec that if browsers are willing to do it. So far, my
>> understanding is that they are not. (There's no point writing a
>> spec that isn't followed, the whole point of the spec is to define
>> what should happen to get interoperability.)
>
> Understood again, but maybe it makes sense to ask the question
> again, now that all browser vendors are actually part of the same
> specification effort.
To my knowledge, using the page encoding for the query part of the URL
is still required for interoperability with a number of servers. We
would not be willing to break those servers.
Regards,
Maciej